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Graphify Cuts AI Token Waste by Indexing Codebases as Knowledge Graphs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Graphify compiles code directories into knowledge graphs, letting AI agents query structured relationships instead of re-reading raw files each session. This reduces token consumption significantly, addressing a key inefficiency in AI-assisted coding. The open-source tool implements an idea from Andrej Karpathy for LLM-friendly knowledge bases.

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The approach is promising but faces adoption hurdles: it requires developers to trust an extra indexing step, and its value depends on how well the graph captures complex code dependencies.
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